GrandCentral

I just received an invite into the Google Grandcentral Beta program. I must say that this is the most amazing thing that I have seen Google provide for free. Grandcentral provides a free local telephone number that is yours for life. From there you can setup this number to ring up to 6 different phones. Real phones, not just VOIP phones. The service can ring all six phones for you at the same time if you want, allowing you to choose which phone you want to accept the call with. And if that feature alone isn’t cool enough there are plenty of other things you can do. You can even change the ringing sound that callers hear when they call you. Oh and maybe best of all you can have different voicemail greetings for all of your contacts. And I shouldn’t forget that if someone calls you and you never want to have them call you again you can add them to your blocked list. And the features go on and on…. (click here for a current feature list)

If you want to check Grandcentral out I have a few invites that I can give out. If you want an invite just leave a comment on this blog and I will give out as many as I can.

And if you want to call me you can use the little gadget below…..
( The way this gadget works is you type in your name and your phone number. You will receive a phone call and so will I. Then we will be connected, so you won’t be using a microphone and speakers on your PC to make this call, you will need an actual phone to use this. )

Why you might want to actually use this ‘call me’ thing above: Let’s say you don’t have a phone with long distance, or you simply don’t want to pay long distance to call me. If you use this button above you will receive a phone call rather than placing a call. And if you happen to have a phone provider that gives you unlimited incoming calls then this call won’t even use up any of your minutes. It truly is very clever. I just hope I don’t start getting strange calls from random people around the blogosphere…. Oh and another reason you might want to use this is if you have been trying to get in contact with me and don’t have my phone number you can still call me.

Update: You don’t need to call me to get a GrandCentral Invite. I appreciate the calls, but to be honest it is sorta creepy to get random calls from people I don’t know. So if you want an invite just leave a comment on this blog post. Fill out your email address and let me know your name. (Your email address will not appear on my blog anywhere.)

37 Comments

Dustee
on October 14, 2007 at 9:10 am

I would love an invite to GrandCentral. It sounds amazing! But the only issue I have is giving out my phone number. But I still would love an invite.

Your invite has been sent. I should have been a bit clearer that all I need to send you an invite is an email address that will actually get to you and a first and last name (so that the invite makes more sense to you when you receive it.)

When you signup Grandcentral won’t share anything with me, not your phone number or even if you have signed up, so no personal information will be shared with me. I simply need a valid email address to send the invite to.

And I still have a few more if there are any takers out there. 🙂

Dustee
on October 14, 2007 at 11:30 am

Jeff,
Thank you so much! I received your invite and I appreciate it! As an old girl I can’t be too careful…my kids get on me about being so trusting.
Again…thankyou!

I would really like to try this service out. Thanks so much in advance i I get an invite. I’ll return the favor if I get the chance.

Jan
on February 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm

If you have one more to spare it would be greatly appreciated. Just found out our cable provider can no longer provide us with phone service so I am looking for an alternative. I’ve heard Magicjack works great with Grandcentral, but I can’t find an invite anywhere!

Linda
on February 22, 2008 at 7:53 pm

I just found out about this and would love an invite to try it and see how all this works. Thank you

Linda and Nick your invites have been sent along to your inbox.
I still have a couple more invites if anyone is interested.

Linda
on February 25, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Thank you soooo much. I be at computer all day now like a little kid with a new toy.

feroz
on March 4, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Hey Jeff,

I have searched for days and days trying to get a Grand central invite. Please be my saviour. Please send me an Invite.

It would really really really make me happy.
Please !

Thanks in advance.

feroz
on March 4, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Hey Jeff,
After leaving my comment requesting for a Grand central Invite, I started looking at your website. I was amazed to see the different ways you may be contacted. Thatz really Amazing man. I might be interested to learn more. Hope you wouldnt mind me posting some questions that I might be interested in learning.
Please let me know.
Thanks

Feroz – I had a couple of invites left, but it looks like GrandCentral has taken away the ability for users to send invites. If I get more invites I will send one along to you. I have no idea why they removed the invites, nor do I know when they might be bringing it back.

Sam
on April 6, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Hi Jeff,
Cool site. I found it by doing a search of GrandCentral invites. From the posts I read, you’ve been kind enough to send out invites to several people. I was wondering if you still had any left? I have tried to signup/reserve a spot on GrandCentral’s site many times, yet never once received an email response from them. It seems an Invite is the only way I’ll gain access. If you can help, I would be very thankful.
-Sam

Sam – I don’t have any more Grand Central invites. It appears that Grandcentral took the invite option away just before I was about to run out of invites anyway. Sorry, at this time I don’t have any invites to give away. If they bring back the invites I have you and feroz on my list to get an invite to.

kaylobe
on May 16, 2008 at 6:08 am

Hi
I have been looking for a crandcentral invite.
If anyone has one to spare I would appreiated one.
I can be reach via e-mail: michelle.e.leonard at hot mail dot com
Thank You

kaylobe – Grand Central is no longer providing invites, so I do not have any invites to provide. And as the blog posts says above, you don’t need to call me to get an invite. You do realize that it was before 7:00am when you called where I am at ? That is just far too early for me to answer a call from an unknown caller.

So for anyone else who is looking for an invite, I simply don’t have any.